ASRock X670E PRO RS AM5 ATX Motherboard Review

Motherboard reviews

You can find the ASRock X670E PRO RS AM5 ATX Gaming Motherboard at Newegg’s website. This motherboard costs $270.99 at this time. This motherboard has 4 out of 5 eggs and 69 ratings.

This motherboard is an ATX motherboard. It is an AM5 CPU type. It also has 4 DDR5 slots. It also has 6 Sata.

This is a very good motherboard for everything you can think of. It is especially good for gaming as it is a gaming motherboard. It runs very smoothly. My PC has also never crashed before.

Works Cited:

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1a7D5iZBT6jAJudUVW-fWD0mjE2JmGCJltctN5L4q198/edit#slide=id.g2a05e9f2d14_1_15

https://www.newegg.com/asrock-x670e-pro-rs/p/N82E16813162069

 

ASUS ROG Strix Z690-E Gaming Motherboard

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The ASUS ROG Strix Z690-E Gaming motherboard is a great gaming motherboard for gaming, it has a LGA 1700 CPU socket that supports Supports 13th / 12th Gen Intel Core Processors with an Intel Z690 Chipset. It has 4 memory slots for 288 pin DDR5 supporting 32GB which is roughly 128GB of data which is good for storage but the memory over clocks from 5000gb/s to  6400gb/s, and 4800gb/s is the only speed it doesn’t over clock at. It also contains a 1 x PCI Express 5.0 x16, 1 x PCI Express 4.0 x16, 1 x PCI Express 3.0 x16, 1 x PCIe 3.0 x1. It has 6 x SATA 6Gb/s; the PCI, PCIe, and PCI Express are best used for expansions that allow you to install a wide variety of expansion cards including: Graphics or Video cards and Sound cards. It has multiple USB plug in ports, an Intel I225-V LAN chipset that runs at 2.5Gbps, a HDMI port, 5 x Gold-plated audio jacks, and Bluetooth, a ROG SupremeFX 7.1 channel Surround Sound High Definition Audio CODEC ALC4080. Lastly it has a limited warranty period (Parts) and a limited warranty period (Labor) both lasting 3 years.

the ASUS ROG Strix Z690-E Gaming Motherboard has a 4.2 Egg rating on Newegg. Over all in my own opinion its great for anything from gaming to business use to home use, but I’d suggest it for gaming, theres more info on the ASUS ROG Strix Z690-E Gaming Motherboard on the ASUS ROG (Republic of Gamers) website.

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GIGABYTE X670E AORUS MASTER AM5 Review

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The Gigabyte X670E Aorus Master EATX Motherboard is a gaming motherboard sold for $469.99 on Newegg as of 12/1/2023. This motherboard supports AMD processors with an AM5 socket and supports Ryzen 7000 series processors. Full list here. 

This motherboard has the AMD X670E Chipset, which is one of the best options when it comes to chipsets. For memory, this motherboard supports 4×288 pin (DDR5) dual-channel RAM (Read Only Memory). Supporting up to 192GB of RAM. 192GB of RAM is the perfect amount of RAM for gamers who need their PC to run faster and better. This motherboard supports 5200 not overclocked and a maximum of 8000 overclocked.

This motherboard is rated 4/5 eggs on Newegg. This motherboard is pretty expensive at around $500. If you are willing to spend the money then I recommend it. This motherboard can house the best type of AMD CPUs and DDR5 RAM. There are 6 SATA ports for your hard drives and storage devices. There are also M.2 slots for internal storage with a thermal guard. There are 3 PCIe x16 slots for audio and graphics cards or any other ways to expand your motherboard capabilities. There are also plenty of USB ports for your hardware devices and audio jacks for microphones and other sound devices on the I/O panel.

References: 

“GIGABYTE X670E AORUS MASTER AM5 AMD.” Newegg, https://www.newegg.com/gigabyte-x670e-aorus-master/p/N82E16813145405. Accessed 1 December 2023. 

“X670E AORUS MASTER (rev. 1.x) Specification | Motherboard – GIGABYTE Global.” Gigabyte, https://www.gigabyte.com/Motherboard/X670E-AORUS-MASTER-rev-1x/sp#sp. Accessed 1 December 2023. 

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MSI MAG B550M MORTAR MAX WIFI Review

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After first getting the MAG B550M Mortar Max Wifi motherboard I was thrilled to see the amazing esthetics behind this creation. With the black and white smooth and futuristic style it had in my sleek black PC case, it fit the overall look perfectly. What I like the most about this motherboard is the amount of compatibility it has, with the ability to put anything from a Ryzen 3rd gen to a Ryzen 5th gen, I can choose the best CPU for the budget and the uses I need out of this motherboard. With wifi being built into this motherboard, I no longer have to worry about using an adapter like I was using on my old motherboard, allowing me to get the best family-friendly use at home. With four RAM slots, I can truly pick how much I need for my uses for this motherboard from a range from 8 GB of RAM to 128 GB.

Even with the integrated components of the motherboard, you have a wide variety of options. I like being able to connect my phone to the PC Via my USB-C phone cable, and with these integrated component options, I no longer have to worry about using adapters that don’t give me the speed I need. With the display port and HDMI port, I can hook two separate monitors without the need for a graphics card. Also, with the 7.1 audio this baby has, I can hook up the ultimate sound system that I can use when I work.

This is the rating this motherboard has on Newegg, which isn’t bad, it is pretty close to how I would rate it. Now my rating on this motherboard, based on the experience I have had so far with this motherboard, would be 4.5 out of 5 eggs/stars. I was truly hoping that there would be more expansion possibilities with this motherboard for the price of 169.99 on Newegg. Though this motherboard does have plenty of storage connection available, with its 6 SATA ports, including an M.2 Slot, it just doesn’t have enough expansion slots as I would prefer to have. That is how I would rate this motherboard and my review of it.

Note: This review is part of a classroom project.

ASRock B450M/AC Motherboard Review

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ASRock B450M/AC Motherboard has a great performance and it is a fairly cheap motherboard. This motherboard only costs $61.99 on newegg.com. This motherboard can be used for any home PC. This motherboard has a 4.8/5 eggs on newegg. I think that is a good rating.

This motherboard has the maximum memory it can support is 128GB. This is helpful when you need to hold a lot in the memory. There are 4x288pin memory slots. the 4 slots and hold DDR4 memory card. The maximum O.C. memory it can hold is DDR4 4000. The most non-O.C. it can hold is DDR4 2800.

This motherboard is good since it is just for a home PC. Since it has a 4,8/5 rating on NewEgg that means that 86% of people like this motherboard. It is a very cheap motherboard with how many people like it. I think that it is a good home PC motherboard. I use it all the time.

Work cited:

“ASRock B450M/AC R2.0 AM4 Micro ATX AMD Motherboard – Newegg.Com.” Newegg, 2000, www.newegg.com/asrock-b450m-ac-r2-0/p/N82E16813157974.

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ASUS prime B760M-A AX

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The ASUS prime B760M-A AX is a great motherboard for gaming or using for personal use I would rate it a 4/5 because I think it’s a little overpriced but i would still get it because of its features and how well and smooth it runs.$131.99 Is the total price for this motherboard. this motherboard is also good for if you wanted to use it for business. This motherboard comes with 128GB for its max memory it also supports dual channel and it has 6 x SATA 6Gb/s . The motherboard has 2 x USB 3.2 Gen 2 ports (2 x Type-A ) 4 x USB 2.0 ports (4 x Type-A)1 x DisplayPort 2 x HDMI ports 1 x Wi-Fi Module 1 x Realtek 2.5Gb Ethernet port 3 x Audio jacks 1 x PS/2 Keyboard/Mouse combo port and has 7.1 audio channels and Wi-Fi 6 2×2 Wi-Fi 6 (802.11 a/b/g/n/ac/ax) Supports 2.4/5GHz frequency band which is pretty good to have come with a motherboard.  The onboard usb has 2 x USB 3.2 Gen 1 headers support additional 4 USB 3.2 Gen 1 ports 2 x USB 3.2 Gen 1 connector (supports USB Type-C) 2 x USB 2.0 headers support additional 4 USB 2.0 ports.

 

For any other things you wanna know about this motherboard can be found at https://www.newegg.com/p/N82E16813119640R?Item=N82E16813119640R

 

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ASUS AMD B650-A Motherboard review

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Today we will be reviewing the ASUS ROG-STRIX B650-A Gaming motherboard. I choose this motherboard to reviewing this motherboard today because it is an amazing motherboard with great capabilities for gaming.

The reason I pick this specific motherboard is because AMD has been the leading manufacturer in CPUs these past few years. They also have their own GPU series (I would not recommend using it) but they have expanded horizons that specialize in CPUs which makes them a great choice to pair with ASUS because ASUS is an amazing motherboard manufacturer. I am extremely biased towards them because I have had so many amazing experiences with them in the past.

It also holds a maximum of 128 GB of RAM (Random access memory) This is where the CPU uses the memory in the RAM to store temporary storage that leaves once you turn off the PC this si what we uses typically to run games.

the rest of the specs can be found here

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Configuring Nginx for HTTPS Redirect

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  • NOTES
    • If you already have nginx deployed, skip to the “Add a website for URL redirect” step.
  •  Assumptions
    • You have an Ubuntu 22.04 Linux server created
      • 4GB of RAM
      • 30GB of Drive Storage
  • Prerequisites
    • You have a DNS “A” record redirecting all subdomains to your machine.
      • For instance, if your domain is “example.com”, you need to create an A record of “*” to redirect everything to anysubdomain.example.com.
  • Download openssh (OPTIONAL)
    • This allows the user to ssh into the machine to allow for easier copying and pasting of commands
      • sudo -i
        • This puts the current terminal as a super user (can run commands as an admin).
      • apt-get update
        • Updates the current list of Linux packages.
      • apt-get upgrade
        • Upgrades all of the packages/updates the actual software
      • apt-get install openssh-server
        • This installs openssh so you can ssh to the Linux machine
    • Connect to the Linux machine via SSH (use putty or the cmd)
  • Install nginx
    • apt install nginx
      • This installs the nginx software and engine
    • systemctl status nginx
      • this will check the status of nginx, ensuring the it is running
  • Add a website for URL redirect
    • cd /etc/nginx/sites-available
    • nano yourwebsite.example.com
      • You will want this to actually be the URL you are redirecting. For instance, test.nationaltrail.us. “test” is the subdomain and “nationaltrail.us” is the domain we own.
    • Add the following configuration to the file
      • server {
        server_name test.nationaltrail.us;location / {
        proxy_pass http://10.10.8.112; # Point to test web server
        proxy_set_header Host $host;
        proxy_set_header X-Real-IP $remote_addr;
        proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for;
        }
        }

        • This redirects “test.nationaltrail.us” to “http://10.10.8.112”
    • Link sites-available to sites-enabled
      • ln -s /etc/nginx/sites-available/test.nationaltrail.us /etc/nginx/sites-enabled
        • This creates a link from sites-available to sites-enabled to allow nginx to start redirecting/have access to the configuration
    • Test the configuration
      • nginx -t
        • This should have an output such as “the configuration is OK”
    • Restart the nginx service
      • systemctl reload nginx
    • You should now ab able to go to “test.nationaltrail.us” to go to the website located at “10.10.8.112”
  • Add Certbot and secure the site
    • At this point, you are only redirecting traffic, not adding an SSL certificate. This will add encryption to secure the site.
    • Install certbot and the nginx plugin
      • apt install certbot python3-certbot-nginx
    • Secure your website
      • certbot –nginx -d test.nationaltrail.us
    • Go through the installation process. This includes adding a notification email for certificate expiration AND choosing the option for REDIRECTING traffic to HTTPS. This is the second option if you are prompted for it.
    • Restart nginx
      • systemctl reload nginx
  • Connect to your website! It should be secured unless the web app requires further proxy configuration (refer to the webpages documentation for this possibility).

Creating a Big Blue Button Virtual Machine

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Assumptions:

  • You have a Linux 20.04 VM that had root enabled and available for login.
  • The VM is able to have the minimum specs required for Big Blue Button.

Prerequisites:

  1. You have an email available to use for Big Blue Button
  2. You have a subdomain available to use for Big Blue Button

1.1 Starting Off

  • Log in with root by hitting the not listed icon and inserting root in the username field then enter the password. After logging in, you will want to navigate to the following website: https://docs.bigbluebutton.org/administration/install/
  • (Note: The following steps are optional, however, every time that something went wrong with the installation I had not done these.) You will want to do the following pre-installation steps to check the requirements:
    • In terminal, use the following commands:
      • cat /etc/default/locale
      • systemctl show-environment
      • free -h
      • uname -m
      • ip addr |grep inet6
      • uname -r
      • grep -c ^processor /proc/cpuinfo
      • ufw allow 80
      • ufw allow 443                             
    • The responses you should get are as follows:
      • LANG=”en_US.UTF-8″
      • LANG=”en_US.UTF-8″ PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin
      • total used free shared buff/cache available
        Mem: 15G 3.1G 1.0G 305M 11G 12G
        Swap: 0B 0B 0B
      • X86_64
      • inet6 :: 1/128 scope host
      • 5.4.x-xx-generic (Note mine did not exactly match this and it still worked.)
      • 8

1.2 Installation

  1. Download the script from the following website: https://github.com/bigbluebutton/bbb-install/blob/v2.7.x-release/bbb-install.sh
  2. Enter cd ~/Downloads into terminal. (This changes the active directory to the Downloads folder)
  3. Next, you want to make the script executable use this command: chmod +x bbb-install.sh
  4. This command runs the script: ./bbb-install.sh
  5. You should see a bunch of information regarding the script pop up.
  6. We are then going to navigate back to the website that you downloaded the script from and go to the page titled “READ ME”                     
  7. Located in the README document is the command for installing Big Blue Button, along with Greenlight. Scroll down until you see the heading titled “Installing on a Private Network”.
  8. Right above that heading, there is a command that is available to copy, copy this command and paste it into terminal.
  9. Once pasted, delete the “[options]” part and instead put in “-g”. This is to install greenlight along with Big Blue Button. You will also need to enter that email and domain that I mentioned earlier. 
  10. Once pasted, click enter and it will run the command, it will take a little while to install everything.
  11. Once done, you should see a link to the domain that you entered into the command, click on it and if you see the following screen, you have successfully installed Big Blue Button.
  12. If using with Moodle, you will need to obtain the “Secret” along with the domain. You will obtain both of these using the following command: bbb-conf –secret.